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I.-APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE NINETY-
THIRD CONGRESS IN REGULAR ANNUAL, SUPPLEMENTAL, AND MISCEL-
LANEOUS APPROPRIATION ACTS, AND MAJOR ACTS AUTHORIZING APPRO-
PRIATIONS (pp. 9-1053)

II. PERMANENT APPROPRIATIONS-FEDERAL FUNDS (pp. 1055–1068)

III. PERMANENT APPROPRIATIONS-TRUST FUNDS (pp. 1069-1084)

IV.-RECAPITULATION OF APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 1085–1092)

V.-CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF REGULAR AND SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIA-
TION BILLS (pp. 1094-1101)

VI-AMOUNT OF LOANS AUTHORIZED BY APPROPRIATION OR OTHER ACTS, CON-
TRACT AUTHORIZATIONS, AND APPROPRIATIONS TO LIQUIDATE CONTRACT
AUTHORIZATIONS (pp. 1103-1108)

VII-AUTHORIZATIONS FOR APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 1109-1115)

VIII-COMPARISON OF BUDGET ESTIMATES AND APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 1117-1243)
IX.-COMPARISON OF BUDGET ESTIMATES AND APPROPRIATIONS BY SESSIONS
OF CONGRESS (pp. 1245–1246)

X.-TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS BY SESSIONS OF CONGRESS (pp. 1247–1249)

PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS OF THE SENATE AND HOUse of
REPRESENTATIVES AS REQUIRED BY LAW (U.S. CODE, TITLE 2, SECTION 105)

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COMPILERS' NOTES

1. The Legislative Appropriation Act approved June 7, 1924, provided: "In lieu of the data relating to offices created and omitted and salaries increased and reduced, the statement shall hereafter contain such additional information concerning estimates and appropriations, as the committees may deem necessary."

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Such data had been tabulated in previous volumes of this work for each session of Congress from the Fiftieth to the Sixty-seventh, inclusive, covering the fiscal years 1889 to 1924, inclusive.

2. This compilation contains laws affecting or making appropriations which were enacted during the first session of the 93d Congress, with the exception of private relief acts containing appropriations. Such private acts have been omitted from this compilation but a summary thereof containing the number of the act, the beneficiaries, and the amount appropriated is included. Appropriations for four activities excluded from their regular bills due to lack of authorizing legislation are provided through continuing appropriations as follows: (1) Public Law 93-52, as amended, provides financing for the National Commission on Productivity through December 22, 1973; and (2) Section 502 of Public Law 93-245 (Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1974) provides funding for the Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking People and Salaries and Expenses and Manpower Training Services under the Department of Labor, Manpower Administration, through June 30, 1974. 3. This volume also contains various comparative tabulations showing for the session, and by fiscal years, and in both detailed and summarized form, the Presidential budget estimates (requests) for "appropriations" and certain other types of requests involving the appropriation of obligating and spending authority. 4. While required by the Constitution as a necessary prerequisite to the withdrawal of any money from the Treasury, through long usage the term "appropriation" acquired a definite, technical word-of-art meaning in relation to many details and summaries in the annual budget of the President, in the making available of obligational and spending authority, and in tabulations and summarizations of congressional fiscal actions. If the proposition did not "appropriate" within the concept thus imparted to the term, then it was not added in the "appropriation" totals. If it did so "appropriate", it was added in.

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Thus, in congressional tabulations generally a "reappropriation" (extension) of a balance of a previous appropriation was not added in even though it provided obligational and spending authority beyond what would in its absence have been the case. An "authorization to expend from debt receipts" (sometimes called "public debt borrowing authority") was not counted as an "appropriation" even though it conveyed both authority to obligate and authority to expend. An authorization to enter into contracts in advance of an appropriation ("contract authorization"), being authority to obligate the Government but not to expend money, was not added in the general "appropriation" totals. But a subsequent "appropriation to liquidate" that contract authorization-an authority to expend money but not to create additional obligations-was counted as an "appropriation".

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Furthermore, historically, prior to fiscal year 1969 the general budgetary and congressional appropriation totals were arranged and presented so as to give greater emphasis and prominence to those dealing with Federal, or Federally-owned funds, as distinct from trust funds which the Government theoretically holds in a fiduciary capacity. Although prior to the fiscal year 1938 (75th Cong., 1st sess.) such trust funds were relatively insignificant in the total appropriations picture, they subsequently came to loom large, and while separately tabulated and noted in volumes of this work previous to the 90th Cong., 2d sess., they were not included in the aggregate totals of "appropriations" generally emphasized and cited. (See note, table X, in volumes prior to the 90th Cong., 2d sess.). But in subsequent volumes, including this volume, they are incorporated in general appropriation totals.

Title 31 U.S.C., section 2, dealing with the national budget system, provides that the term "appropriations" includes, in appropriate context "* * * funds and authorizations to create obligations by contract in advance of appropriations, or any other authority making funds available for obligation or expenditure."

Special Note.-A further significant departure in what is now included in several general summary tabulations which was not so included in these volumes prior to the 90th Cong., 2d sess., has to do with obligational or spending authority conveyed in acts other than the regular annual and supplemental "appropriation" acts. Copies of such acts, and certain specific tabulations related to them, usually appear in one way or another in such prior volumes, but the amounts were not cranked directly into a number of the overall summary tabulations as has been done in volumes beginning with the 90th Cong., 2d sess. This especially affects tables VIII, IX, and X. To retain some consistency of ready identity as between amounts relating to the regular annual and supplemental "appropriation" acts and amounts relating to "appropriations in legislative acts", there is a breakout along these lines in each of these three tables (in some years, the "legislative act" amounts are quite significant, relatively. And sometimes, it is not easy or possible to nail down with absolute precision the amounts involved in the "budget the "budget estimates" or the amounts "appropriated").

A new, unified budget concept recommended by the President's Commission on Budget Concepts in its report of October 10, 1967, was embraced by the President, and the Budget for 1969 incorporated most of its basic features. The object was to secure usage, as nearly as may be practicable, of a single concept of appropriations, receipts, expenditures, lending, and debt in order to promote public and congressional understanding of Federal fiscal and budget actions and matters. The various comparative tabulations and summaries in this volume conform generally to the new concept in respect to "appropriations."

(For a more detailed exposition of the new concept, see the Report of the Commission, especially in relation to "appropriations," pp. 6, 12, 16, 76, 95, and 100; Special Analysis A, the Budget for 1969; and hearings of February 8, 1968, before the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, on the Budget for 1969, p. 40 and following.)

Thus, in lieu of the terms "Estimates" and "Appropriations" used in volumes previous to the 90th Cong., 2d sess., subsequent volumes, including this volume, use the terms "Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority" and "New budget (obligational) authority appropriated." In broad terms, by far the major single difference between aggregate general totals in this volume in contrast to those in volumes previous to the 90th Cong., 2d sess., is the inclusion, in this volume, of trust funds (virtually all of which, incidentally, in any session or year, flow automatically from permanent-type enactment of previous sessions that thus do not require action in bills of the current session). And even under the new concept, in all but a relative handful of instances the new budget

(obligational) authority requested and appropriated is in the old, conventional "appropriation" form as previously used and understood.

Specifically, "new budget (obligational) authority" is derived by

Appropriations (as herein above described) excluding appropriations to liquidate contract authorization; plus

Reappropriations; plus

Contract authorizations; plus

Authorizations to spend from debt receipts.

It must be noted that there are, within the Government, certain inter-fund and intragovernmental payments between accounts that get counted in both places. Principal examples: Interest on public debt securities held by trust funds; governmental contributions to employee retirement trust funds; general fund contributions to various insurance programs. And under the new unified concept, certain "proprietary receipts from the public" are offset against budget authority for budget summary presentation purposes. This situation can complicate if a simple addition of Federal fund totals and trust fund totals is made without reckoning with this "deduct" problem. [Note.-The aggregate "deduct" figure of $37,257,990,000 used in several of the summary tables in this volume is the amount relating to fiscal 1974 shown in the Budget for 1975 on page 287.]

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JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi
JOHN J. ROONEY, New York
ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Florida
OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana
JOE L. EVINS, Tennessee

EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts
WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky
DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania
TOM STEED, Oklahoma

GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois
JOHN M. SLACK, West Virginia
JOHN J. FLYNT, JR., Georgia
NEAL SMITH, Iowa

ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut
JULIA BUTLER HANSEN, Washington
JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York
JOHN J. McFALL, California

EDWARD J. PATTEN, New Jersey
CLARENCE D. LONG, Maryland
SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois
BOB CASEY, Texas

FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado

DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin

EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California

LOUIS STOKES, Ohio

J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana

GUNN MCKAY, Utah

TOM BEVILL, Alabama

EDITH GREEN, Oregon

ROBERT O. TIERNAN, Rhode Island

BILL CHAPPELL, Florida

BILL D. BURLISON, Missouri

ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan
JOHN J. RHODES, Arizona'
WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio
ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois
SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts
GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin
HOWARD W. ROBISON, New York
GARNER E. SHRIVER, Kansas
JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania
MARK ANDREWS, North Dakota
LOUIS C. WYMAN, New Hampshire
BURT L. TALCOTT, California
DONALD W. RIEGLE, Jr., Michigan
WENDELL WYATT, Oregon
JACK EDWARDS, Alabama
WILLIAM J. SCHERLE, Iowa
ROBERT C. MCEWEN, New York
JOHN T. MYERS, Indiana

J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia
CLARENCE E. MILLER, Ohio
EARL B. RUTH, North Carolina
VICTOR V. VEYSEY, California
LAWRENCE COUGHLIN, Pennsylvania

C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida

1 Majority members elected January 4, 1973. Minority members elected January 12, 1973.

1 Majority and minority members elected January 24, 1973, except as indicated.

3 Resigned December 7, 1973.

'Resigned March 5, 1973.

Elected March 7, 1973.

Elected December 20, 1973.

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